They <span>hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded Seven Years' War.</span>
The French<span> decided to back the U.S. in its military efforts until the U.S. had full independence from Great Britain.</span>
https://socratic.org/questions/how-were-the-west-african-kingdoms-involved-in-the-slave-trade
With the development of the trans-Saharan slave trade and the economies of gold in the western Sahel, a number of the major states became organized around the slave trade, including the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and Songhai Empire. However, other communities in West Africa largely resisted the slave trade.
The transatlantic slave trade began during the 15th century when Portugal, and subsequently other European kingdoms, were finally able to expand overseas and reach Africa. The Portuguese first began to kidnap people from the west coast of Africa and to take those they enslaved back to Europe
"Gospel of Wealth' by Andrew Carnegie was written to the 'new' upper class - those that made their own riches (not 'old money'). It was intended to describe their responsibility to share their wealth through philanthropy.
